The Moon and Uranus will make a close approach, passing within 1°24' of each other. The Moon will be 11 days old.
From South El Monte , the pair will be visible in the evening sky, becoming accessible around 21:08 (PDT), 32° above your southern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. They will then reach their highest point in the sky at 21:56, 33° above your southern horizon. They will continue to be observable until around 00:46, when they sink below 20° above your south-western horizon.
The Moon will be at mag -12.5; and Uranus will be at mag 5.5. Both objects will lie in the constellation Ophiuchus.
They will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a telescope, but will be visible through a pair of binoculars.
A graph of the angular separation between the Moon and Uranus around the time of closest approach is available here.
The positions of the pair at the moment of closest approach will be as follows:
| Object | Right Ascension | Declination | Constellation | Magnitude | Angular Size |
| The Moon | 16h33m20s | 23°20'S | Ophiuchus | -12.5 | 31'05"9 |
| Uranus | 16h34m40s | 21°58'S | Ophiuchus | 5.5 | 3"8 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 140° from the Sun, which is in Gemini at this time of year.
The sky on 27 Jul 2026
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All times shown in PDT.
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Source
The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE440 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.
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Image credit
The Moon in conjunction with Venus and Jupiter, with the Very Large Telescope in the foreground. Image © Y. Beletsky, ESO, 2009.